It's not often that I get to remember and use phrases like "on out my farm" or "powerful ugly" in modern scripts..

When you give me something that I love, then I spend a long time drilling down on it and figuring out what it is I love about it..

In the world of comics, Jack Kirby and Will Eisner may have been more influential artists, but Joe Kubert was its most influential man. Even if he we….

The best comics editors have the smallest egos. The worst ones feel like they have to justify their salaries by making changes just so they can leave….

Never forget that at the end of the day, as a creative person, your résumé is all you've got..

Artists are not helper monkeys; they’re not in it to visualize 'your' story, because it stopped being 'your' story the moment you engaged in a collab….

Socrates should have written comics..

The most basic definition of a story is 'Somebody wants something and something's in his way,' and I'm more likely to be engaged if I at least think ….

Gillen and McKelvie shared their upcoming The Wicked + The Divine with me, and its amazing. Please tell your retailer this week to order!.

I was a teenager, and I went to see the Superman movie, and up to the point I walked into that movie, I was a kid with no direction and no real purpo….

One of the greatest sins in any story is false suspense. The kind of 'suspense' that disintegrates the moment you give your reader one second to thin….

A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism. Even if you bog it down with political allegory,….

Comics are expensive. Don’t make me resent the money I spend buying yours. Every single moment in your script must either move the story along or dem….

You're a superhero. Shut up and enjoy having superpowers. This makes me crazy. This is why the Marvel movies kick DC movies' asses right and left. Be….

Does Batman ever NOT have a plan...?.

What makes a good editor is staying the hell out of the way as much as possible. ... If you're a DC or Marvel or Dark Horse or BOOM! editor who's ass….

Twenty-two pages is not a lot of space. Believe me. Having written a bazillion comics, I still find myself more often than nine pages into a script a….

In a 22-page comic, figuring an average of four to five panels a page and a couple of full-page shots, a writer has maybe a hundred panels at most to….

In the long run, the quality of your work is all that matters. That is your only resumé. Be professional. Make sure your editor or publisher can alwa….

I like the brighter, shinier, happier comic-book material on a personal level, but I also think the best stories are told where you just don't know f….

Each time I think I've made a connection with someone... once they find out what I can do, whether it's hours or days later, everything changes. Inva….